Android New APIs Behind Ice Cream Sandwich Developers are going to notice one thing immediately when they download the Android 4.0 SDK: Ice Cream Sandwich is built from Honeycomb, not Gingerbread. The user interface is Honeycomb, and the widgets, calendar, contacts and multi-tasking are all improvements taken from Honeycomb. Google has issued several new application programming interfaces… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Web 2.0 Summit 2011 Google Analytics Flow Visualization Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Google's SVP of advertising, Susan Wojcicki, announced a new feature for Google Analytics called Flow Visualization. It allows sorting by categories like Web browser or country, and it shows the flow of those various categories from left to right, moving around the site. It's like a tree of information, with the… Jon Mitchell View comments
Web 2.0 Summit 2011 Day 3 of Web 2.0 It's the last day of the Web 2.0 Summit, and it's been a great ride. Today's guests are some of the best of the bunch. Mike McCue of Flipboard, Susan Wojcicki at Google and Hilary Mason from bit.ly are here this morning. Then we'll have MC Hammer (yes), Mitchell Baker from Mozilla, and Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and his current venture, Milk. The… Jon Mitchell View comments
Op-Ed Top 10 Siri Personality Modules We'd Like to Have With the sale of the iPhone 4S comes Siri, the voice behind the machine. And while it has a generally pleasant female voice and some interesting personality quirks, we would really like to see replaceable modules for the times that we want someone else to talk to us. A phone should match our moods, or remind us of our favorite computer heroes and… Mobile David Strom View comments
Social Networks LinkedIn Classmates Shows Your Entire Alumni Network Today LinkedIn launched LinkedIn Classmates, a way to tap into the power of alumni networks without calling your school's alumni office. This new tool gives you access to what your fellow alums are doing in their post-school lives, highlighting what they've accomplished since graduating, an opportunity to reconnect with alums in your field and a… Social Alicia Eler View comments